Is it just me ?

I see the months and the days of the week in a straight line, since you mention it, stretching away.

I think it's amazing you know what "ellipse" means.

Does an egg have a side?

Yes, I see the days of the week in a straight line as well, but there isn't an end - I can see into next week as well.

Days have their individual colours too, e.g. Monday is scarlet, Tuesday crimson, Wednesday yellow, Thursday blue etc.

My days and months have no shape, just distinct colours. Peoples' names all have colours too. I often use the 'colour scheme' when counting days as it,s quicker than reciting the full word to myself. Interesting. I didn't know anyone else saw colours in words.

I see the numbers 1-100 in a curving path as they appeared on the snakes and ladders board I had as a child. After 100 they all just go off to the right

Days of the week in a continuous line to the right. They don't have a colour, but each day has a different feel and level of energy.

I believe what people have described here - especially seeing letters and numbers in colour - falls under the definition of synaesthesia.

It makes me feel really ordinary

I had never heard of this.

My day lines go to the left, Jane! How odd, now I think about it - I'm not left-handed.

Gosh I am so thick,I can't quite believe it. Days are days, months are months and numbers are numbers. Should I be concerned?

Hmmm, very interesting, NanKate! I see the calendar year as four rows, each consisting of three months, working down from the top. (Top row is Jan - March, below that is April - June, and so on...) and I just assumed that was how everybody saw it, but obviously not! Days of the week are all in a line, beginning with Monday and I can see two weeks at a time.
Years are in rows of tens - the 20th century is a vertical stack of 10 rows working upwards, each reading from left to right, however... this century has started with 2001 to 2010 reading from right to left and 2011 onwards positioned above, going left to right. So, when it gets to 2021, I presume I'll do a sharp left turn and start moving right to left again in a sort of squared-off spiral!

Sadly, no colour anywhere!

This is great that so many of us view months, weeks, in visual ways, especially those who use colour.

It's interesting Ana that your days of the week are coloured. If you arrange to meet someone on a Wednesday to you immediately see yellow?

And yes Jing in my mind's eye this ellipse, sideways egg does have a side, well let's perhaps say left and right surface. March is on the far left.

Well Joy I can see your century quite clearly.

Now to take things to a higher level. I see the number 5 as female and 6 as male.

Over to you.

No, sorry. Days, months, years, numbers, none of these is anything but what they are. I am a very straightforward person and don't see things in colour or different shapes. It's a wonder that I dream in colour.

My year is an upright circle. December is at the bottom, then January starts to climb up the left-hand side, to June at the top and so down the other side again. My weeks go round so I can 'see' a fortnight ahead. Monday is pink, Tuesday orange, Wednesday green, Thursday light brown, Friday dark brown, Saturday purple and green, Sunday black. I can't remember a time when the days of the week didn't have these colours. I wish I could hear different musical keys in colour like some people can.

No, NanKate, if I have an appointment on a certain day I don't see the colour. It's only when I 'view' the day or week in my head - hard to explain!

I read a book about someone with synaesthesia some time ago. I didn't really "get it" and still don't. I think this may mean I have very little imagination or I'm just plain old boring.

Daisy, that's interesting. We both see Sunday as black! I don't coincide with yours or Ana's colours for the other days though.

Another boring one here! I don't get it. I just see an image of my month to view diary when planning ahead.

Sunday is blue for me, and so is Thursday. Friday is black.

Maybe it's an artistic mind at work here. It's not something I've ever thought of. I also rarely dream in colour and its usually colour I just happen to notice.

Here's a definition: Synaesthesia is a condition where a sensation in one of the senses, such as hearing, triggers a sensation in another, such as taste. For example, some people with synaesthesia can taste numbers or hear colours.

I knew a lady who was totally blind who was like this.

I too am very ordinary!

I don't get it either but I just asked OH and he says he sees them in a circle rather like a clock face but they go anti clockwise round with Jan at 11 and Dec at 12 .. weird

I too see words in colour. Not just the days of the week and months of the year, but people's names, numbers and, well, anything really. For instance Susan is yellow, Rebecca is green, James is dark blue, Ian is light blue. Monday is a kind of rusty red, whereas Wednesday is a dark red. Tuesday is a sort of silvery colour, Thursday is cream. Friday is orange.
Synaesthesthia seems to be a 'thing' in my family - my mother had it, as does my sister and my son. Those without it don't know what the heck I'm talking about .
I've often wondered whether the colour thing links to very early learning, where our first reading books were brightly coloured and the alphabet letters would all be individually coloured. Is it this that suggested words should be represented by colours? Not necessarily the colours we saw in those first reading books, but the concept may have originated with them.

I am glad that I don't have colours for days which seems an over complication. I have a hard enough job with the fact that calendars nowadays rarely show Sunday on the left as the first day of the week which makes life difficult when my week always starts on the left with a Sunday and marches to the right ending on a Saturday!

My year goes in a circle but I think that is logical since the seasons go round in a circle or cycle. I see the seasons as colours but that seems to make more sense for me as they reflect what happens to the flora in their cycles with the golden and light green of spring, the differing greens with all the pastel shades through to the deep reds of summer, the lovely orange, reddish brown tints of autumn and the dark grey, black and silver shot through with pale blue of winter.

I am enjoying the autumnal colours at present, they have been spectacular this year.